Luan STAROVA
BIOGRAPHY
Luan Starova is an Albanian writer from the Republic of Macedonia
who serves as an interface between Albanian and Macedonian cultures
and literatures. He was born in Pogradec in Albania on 14 August
1941 and studied at the universities of Skopje and Zagreb, where
he finished a doctorate in French and comparative literature.
He subsequently worked as a professor of French literature at
the University of Skopje and, in the 1990s, served as the first
ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia in Paris. He is the author
of novels, poetry and essays, as well as of translations of French
writers into Macedonian. Starova, who is a member of the Macedonian
Academy of Arts and Sciences, writes and publishes both in his
native Albanian and in Macedonian. cf. www.starova.com.mk
Among Luan Starova's major novels are Tatkovite knigi
(My Father's Books), Skopje 1992, published in Albanian as Librat
e babait, Skopje 1995; Koha e dhive (The Age of the
Goat), 1993, published in Macedonian as Vremeto na kozite,
Skopje 1993; and Ateisticki muzej (The Museum of Atheism),
Skopje 1997. His works have also appeared in French, German,
Italian, Turkish, Romanian, Croatian, Bulgarian and Greek. |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Modern
Authors from Kosova, Macedonia and Montenegro (late 20th
- 21st centuries)
